RE: OT: Anyone using Kindle for Oracle Docs and/or other tech docs?
- From: "Blanchard, William G" <William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Steve Baldwin" <stbaldwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:45:16 -0500
I use Calibre to sync my Kindle with my laptop (Linux). I was
disappointed when I tried to convert some pdfs into a kindle format as
there was a lot of junk included with the converted pdf and if I recall
it didn't handle the pictures well. It's obviously possible since the
Thinkfree Office app on my android phone can convert it perfectly.
WGB
From: Steve Baldwin [mailto:stbaldwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:58 PM
To: kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Blanchard, William G; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OT: Anyone using Kindle for Oracle Docs and/or other tech
docs?
I haven't specifically tried it for Oracle pdf's but this (open source)
tool is pretty slick for organising your ebooks :
http://calibre-ebook.com/
It will convert pdf's to mobi's (and other formats for other ebook
readers).
Steve
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Keith Moore <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I agree. I find it almost unusable for PDFs. For the text to be
readable, you
need to scroll back and forth to read each line.
You can convert PDFs to a kindle readable format. Here's a good article
on the
options:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/how-to-do-almost-everything-with-
a-kindle-3/
I haven't tried too many documents and it does work but not always
perfectly.
Keith
> I use it but it's less than ideal. In order to read the pdfs, you have
to
> rotate and zoom in the document. I would like the Kindle to convert
pdfs into
> a readable format like Thinkfree Office does on my Android phone.
>
>
> Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com)
>
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